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And now for something completely different - Shadowgraphy

Shadowgraphy - the art of making hand shadows.

Back in the 60s when I was a boy, I saw a man on the Ed Sullivan Show do these hand shadows, shadow puppets, something I had not seen before. He could make shadow profiles of animals and of famous people and I specifically recall one he did of JFK. For a while afterwards I would practice making my own shadow profiles and even did a pretty good one of JFK myself.

The few shadow puppeteers I've seen since seem to not copy the famous human profiles done by other puppeteers. If that's true, then the guy I saw as a boy was Albert Almoznino who amazingly is still with us at age 95. The IMDB lists his appearances on Ed Sullivan no earlier than 1969 but I could have sworn I was younger than that. Anyway, here is one if his appearances on Ed Sullivan:

Re: And now for something completely different - Shadowgraphy

Originally Posted by Unboxxed

At the end of his shadow play, Daffy pulls down a screen with the word Asbestos on it. Was there a joke about this at the time, do you know?
Thanks.

Asbestos curtains were a form of low-tech fire control in theaters (as well in shipyards and some auto industry) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries... a substance that will withstand a large amount of heat and can burn very slowly if it caught fire...
they stopped using them as much when it was discovered that prolonged exposure can cause cancer.. (I think they do still us asbestos pads in chem labs)

Re: And now for something completely different - Shadowgraphy

Originally Posted by Eiji

Asbestos curtains were a form of fire control in theaters (as well in shipyards and some auto industry) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries... a substance that will withstand a large amount of heat and can burn very slowly if it caught fire...
they stopped using them as much when it was discovered that prolonged exposure can cause cancer.. (I think they do still us asbestos pads in chem labs)

So maybe the joke was that the flimsy screen Daffy pulled down was enough to protect him from the commandant because it was asbestos? Ok.

They used asbestos in the popcorn ceilings in the homes of the 1950's.

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